Seicento Jef and Seicento Sporting

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Yeah it was! As soon as I saw her I rang the guy! But rough atm but I only paid £200 for her can't go wrong with that!!

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bargin, i got my cinq back for 2nd ownership for £150 - i must admit to being quite surprised when i offered what i knew the local scrapman would offer and he said yes, had to quickly find £150 lol.

I was lucky though, she was dirty but only had few little niggles, headlight, sticking handbrake etc. Managed to buy a car, tax it and mot it (including required parts) for just over £300 - clearly gonna be the cheapest car i ever get lol.

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Had a good look over the inside of the seicento today, got a sunroof leak but I can see the cause so that shall be dealt with, got most of interior stripped out come across this nice bunch of wiring



Even a cut out hole! Seems the interior paint has been blown over with some Matt black paint didn't get a picture but will show one on my next post!

Door cards at the front were loose but just the red clips that was at fault missing some so took some from the rear cards

Just looking for a garage atm for her don't like the cold and wet so I'm avoiding starting the repairs on front end till I can get a warm garage haha

Looks like Steve Wonder did that stereo install!
Good on you for buying it back and taking it on!

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Went and got her a new slam panel today from scrappy along with some indicators



All this.... £20!!!
Traynors at Grantham if anyone is around the lincs area! There fantastic this included them cutting it out for me!

Also got myself a tow strap




Cost me £10 so wasn't going to complain! Getting few more bits for her in the coming weeks stay tuned

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Keep the updates coming mate!

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Been seicento shopping today





Lightened and balanced flywheel at 4.2kg





Ported and polished throttlebody and inlet



New sunroof to fix my leaky one!

Work will commence soon!

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Im gonna do something I havent done for a while.....SUBSCRIBED!!

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Today's small update, a matter of weight saving!



From this to...



This!

Have slowly started chiseling off the solid black stuff on the floor, (that is the best way in which I can describe haha) and I'm keeping everybit of it so I can weight it all and get those important figures to you guys

Dash is coming out tomorrow to get rid of all sound deadning

Also notice 2nd picture puddles in both foot wells! Thank you very much sun roof! That is now sorted changed new one over today

Stay tuned for updates tomorrow

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I thinkbits around 3kgs iirc from removing it from mine.. best way I found was to 'shock' the panel... I.e hit it with a dead blow hammer (I used the leather end or a copper/leather hammer) on a cold morning.. the stuff litterally shatters out and is soo much easier then scraping it out

lee

Re: Seicento 1.2 16v with big plans!!

Small bit of progress today, dash came out



Got the kitchen chair in there missus will be happy I'm sure!

She'll be even happier when she comes home to this


All soundproof coming out from dash and now sits like this



Tomorrow hopefully dash back in and all the black plasticy stuff removed from floor so far only bit of passenger side and drivers left

In terms of weight there's quite a lump of wadding behind the dash id say at least 3-4kg didn't actually weigh it but roughly speaking

Cheers

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Again slow process, works been pretty chocka, got some goodies coming this week!!

Got all the painty stuff removed from floor


Lots of gluey gunky bits still there but in time will be gone

Also got myself one of these...



Brilliant bit of kit got all locking nuts off in 5 mins!!

But.. And a big but when and did this stupidly while hammering the stuff off the floor








When you push the pieces together it still works!! Any suggestions? Or is it a new barrel jobby?

Cheers

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Got a parcel today...



And inside contained...



Plenty of things to keep me busy full set of sport strong flex bushes

All apart from engine mounts as I already did them years ago when I did the engine conversion

Got the arb off and painted...



Ready for its bushes

Bottom arms are a pain cutting the bushes out is a long process, may end up burning them out, I'm guessing ball joints are just pressed in? Also the plate the goes on the bottom arm that connects the arb to it with the two bolts on, can you buy these new? Or is it a scrap yard job, snapped both threads on one side

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arb mounts are discontinued but few members seem to have new ones lying around - can't remember who i seen posting they had some though.

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I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for those then! And I'll be looking at a couple of seicentos at the local salvage yard

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Jef said:

Bottom arms are a pain cutting the bushes out is a long process, may end up burning them out, I'm guessing ball joints are just pressed in?

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Nah, you need to replace the whole arm, then burn the bushes out/off and replace with the poly ones. Just keep the heat away from the ball joints (wet rag, etc.)

Jef said:

Also the plate the goes on the bottom arm that connects the arb to it with the two bolts on, can you buy these new? Or is it a scrap yard job, snapped both threads on one side

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Drill the bolts out, re-tap. Generally you need a decent penetrating oil and heat to have a chance of getting them off without snapping.

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fingers99 said:

Nah, you need to replace the whole arm, then burn the bushes out/off and replace with the poly ones. Just keep the heat away from the ball joints (wet rag, etc.)







Drill the bolts out, re-tap. Generally you need a decent penetrating oil and heat to have a chance of getting them off without snapping.

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Bottom arms will be brought when I start my new job at euro car parts then, hopefully I can rely on some discount

Yeah I used some penetrating oil, I suppose I could always drill the bolts out and just use a nut and bolt through both?

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Jef said:

Yeah I used some penetrating oil, I suppose I could always drill the bolts out and just use a nut and bolt through both?

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Well, you could, but it's almost as easy to do it properly.

cc1 often has those bleddy awkward to get hold of bits. Or the Poles.

You can buy the arb mounts new. I bought some through eBay from a polish seller. From memory unto.pl also sell them.

CC1 sells them brand new thoe ARB mounts